KIEV, Dec. 13 - Ukraine reduced gas production 5.5% in January-November year-on-year to 18.354 billion cubic meters (bcm), with natural gas output rising 5.2% to 17.574 bcm, the Fuel and Energy Ministry reported.

KIEV, Dec. 14 – Polskie Gorniñtwo Naftowe i Gazownictwo SA (PGNiG), Poland's largest gas distribution company, is selling its stake in Kiev-based CJSC Dewon company, which was set up for hydrocarbon production in Ukraine, according to Gazeta Prawna.

KIEV, Dec. 15 – Ukrenergo sold 1,860 MW of electricity transmission capacity to three companies for UAH 208,100 at an auction for access to the Ukrainian power grid to export electricity from January 1 to December 31, 2011.

KIEV, Dec. 14 – The State Road Service (Ukravtodor) in 2010 is to pay UAH 9.8 billion on loans that were raised earlier, the service head, Vadym Hurzhos, said in an interview with the Business newspaper.

KIEV, Dec. 14 – Ukraine plans in 2011 to form minimum oil and fuel reserves of 323,000 tons.

According to a plan for the creation of minimum oil and fuel reserves for the period until 2020 approved by the cabinet, later the stock will be increased by 10% every year, and it will be bought to 3.23 million tons by 2020.

KIEV, Dec. 14 – A delay in the adoption of the national budget for 2010 will not significantly influence the hryvnia exchange rate, which will remain stable even if the budget process is slowed down, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU's governor.

KIEV, Dec. 14 - Kiev Economic Court has ordered the State Property Fund to return a UAH 400 million deposit to Frunze-Flora, which the company paid to bid in a tender to sell Odessa port-side chemical plant that failed in September.

KIEV, Dec. 15 – OJSC Komsomolets Donbasu mine (Kirovske, Donetsk region), part of DTEK Energy Company, has signed an agreement on the sale of 300,000 Emission Reduction Units (ERU) to ING Bank N.V. (the Netherlands) under the Kyoto protocol’s Joint Implementation scheme.

KIEV, Dec. 13 - The output of some types of construction materials fell in November compared to October by 15.4%-45.7%, the State Statistics Committee said.

KIEV, Dec. 13 - Ukraine reduced electricity exports by 15.4% or 1.318 billion kWh year-on-year in January to November, to 7.263 billion kWh, the Fuel and Energy Ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.